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Friday, April 2, 2010

Spungella Contest Ideas

Hey readers!

I want to do a contest here and while I'm thinking about what type, I also wanted to ask you guys what you would like to have as a fun contest.

First price is an art-of book (you choose the one you want and I'll send it to you), second price is the pose able Professor Layton figure! Of course right now I recommend the How to Train Your Dragon book. :)

Unless no one cares about all this, but that's why I'm posting this first. So, anybody up for it and if yes, what type of contest would you like to see?

I have another idea for the contest. Everyone does animation everyday and I think it might be better to have the contest not animation related.

So the 'Big' idea is we get a clip from you. We have a 100 frames, but we don't animate it, we shoot it live action style. Like shooting a reference reel. Would be fun to see what people use as sets/props and well acting in general :)

100 frame pantomime with 2 diverging events, a 2 emotion switch mood. i heard like for example an disney test they gave some one" goofy late for work and the doorbell rings, or something. crazy senarions?

I think it would be good to do an exercise where you really have think about a specific character trait. It's not about who makes the smoothest looking animation, its about who communicates the character trait(given by you)the best in less than 10 seconds(less is more). So whether you choose to use sound or not, just do whatever is needed, that's where your creativity comes in.So for example you might give us one of these traits: courageous, cowardly,conceited, confused,jealous, lazy, lonely,etc.